This week, Pentiment, which has been an Xbox exclusive for almost 2 years, was released on Playstation and Nintendo Switch. Also, pre-orders for some other exclusives that Xbox plans to release in the near future have become available in competitors' digital stores. Players have noticed that there is no mention of Xbox Game Studios on the game pages in the Playstation digital store.
Microsoft Corporation is listed as the publisher of Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, Grounded on Playstation. And the publisher of the game Hi-Fi Rush is Bethesda.
When launching Pentiment on the Playstation, the Xbox Game Studios splash screen does not appear (many players expected to see a Playstation Studios-style splash screen, which appears when launching Sony exclusives, including on PC). However, it is worth saying that there is no such Xbox Game Studios screensaver on Xbox consoles when launching Pentiment. Below you can see Pentiment running on Playstation 5.
At the same time, the mention of Xbox Game Studios was not removed from the Pentiment game itself – it is present in the splash screen after the start of the game.
On Nintendo Switch the situation is a little different. The game Pentiment, according to the digital store, is published by Microsoft Studios. Whereas for Grounded the publisher is Xbox Game Studios.